Essays on the Principles of Morality & Natural Religion: Several Essays Added Concerning The Proof Of A Deity (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics) - Softcover

Kames, Henry Home; Kames, Lord

 
9780865974494: Essays on the Principles of Morality & Natural Religion: Several Essays Added Concerning The Proof Of A Deity (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0865974497 ISBN 13: 9780865974494
Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc, 2005

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<p>The <strong><em>Essays</em></strong> is commonly considered Kames’s most important philosophical work. In the first part, he sets forth the principles and foundations of morality and justice, attacking Hume’s moral skepticism and addressing the controversial issue of the freedom of human will. In the second part, Kames focuses on questions of metaphysics and epistemology to offer a natural theology in which the authority of the external senses is an important basis for belief in the Deity.</p> <p><strong>Henry Home, Lord Kames</strong> (1696–1782) was one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment.</p> <p><strong>Mary Catherine Moran</strong> taught in the Department of History at Columbia University.</p>

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Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) was one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment. He was notable for his social influence and his service as a judge in the supreme courts of Scotland. His works were central to the expression of 'enlightenment' and 'natural law' in the Scottish context. Kames mentored Adam Smith, and his friends included David Hume and James Boswell.

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Liberty Fund Inc
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2005
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Englisch
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0865974497
ISBN 13 
9780865974494
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3
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